in the sticks

Hmm, I have no idea where the installation disk is.

Thanks Ken for offering suggestions. I ran CHKDSK sometime last week, I think after googling for similar issues hundreds of times I came across it somewhere but it didn`t make any difference. I ran a program called Everest also, are you familiar with that? It gives a huge amount of information in the report but it may as well be in Greek. It did say do I want to update the bios, well I don`t know :confused:, do I? It doesn`t say it needs to be updated so I have no idea. When it is running in safe mode (with networking) the screen is fine, it will play clips, I can browse sites with no problem, you wouldn`t really know there is an issue. It wont let me get these pictures onto the usb which I really need to do.

I don`t know what to do next. Help :eek:

No it wont start with the Low Res video option.

I can`t see that as an option. Only safe mode/safe mode with networking (which is what I am using)/safe mode with command prompt/last known good configuration/start windows normally.

I gave it a blast with the air a few days ago and the temps seem to have gone down a lot. Running on average about 56C now and I keep the speedfan running so I can turn it off before it gets too hot. 2 problems now. I can still only start it in safe mode, it will automatically show bsod every time I switch it on. As it is starting up the first screen always has the green broken stripes on it. Added to that I can`t find my dongle that has my photos on it and I have a buffalo portable hard drive but I don`t think I will be able to load stuff on it in safe mode will I?

The vents are clean and it is always on a table running from the mains not the battery. It definitely seems to get hotter if I am playing games but I don`t do that a lot. Mainly browsing but the longer it is on the hotter it gets and the bottom of it is so hot sometimes I can hardly touch it. I was watching the temps a while ago and the more tabs I opened the hotter it got. Is it a difficult task to open it and clean the fan? It`s 4 years old so I guess there will be some dust in there. It`s pretty cool at the mo but it has just been switched off for over an hour.

Just now some of these are getting up to 85/86C which sounds really hot to me.

Hi there, sorry it took me ages to get this running, then just spent the last hour to get my laptop to restart, it`s really struggling. GPU:0C HDO:35C TEMP1:76C TEMP2:76C CORE 0:73C CORE 1:75C Iv`e been watching them for a while to see how they change and at times they have touched 79/80 and dropped down again.

Oh dear, still getting crashes even though everything is now updated. When it crashes I get this strange broken green line effect on the screen. I ran CHKDSK last night and ran a program called EVEREST yesterday but I have no idea what to do with the info on the report. Now running in safemode again. My laptop does get very hot sometimes, could it just be overheating?

I think it`s all sorted, thank you for the link. I downloaded their `fix it` system and it detected all the drivers I needed and replaced everything for me. I hope that`s the end of the crashes. Thanks for your help.

Hi everyone. I have a Sony vaio 32 bit laptop. I have been having issues with crashing for a couple of weeks. I have 4 adapters that need upgrading showing yellow exclamation marks but I can`t update anything. 2 different scans showed no viruses. When I try to use windows update I get error code - 80070643. It won`t update anything at all even though there are 15 updates I need apparently. I can use the laptop in safe mode with networking but if I start windows normally it will run for a while and then crash. I have no idea where to start with uninstalling the devices and installing new ones from the web and i`m really nervous about doing it in-case I can`t download the new ones. (I can`t download anything in safe mode anyway) When I try to install upgrade by clicking on each network adapter separately I get the message that I have the most up to date version but each one has already shown me the message that this device is not working properly because windows cannot load the drivers required for this device (code 31, whatever that is). Any help and advice is very welcome. (As you can probably tell from my non-tech language I need things explaining simply, thanks in advance.)